Contract cheating in higher education : global perspectives on theory, practice, and policy / Sarah Elaine Eaton [and five others], editors.
Eaton, Sarah Elaine, editor.
2022
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Title Contract cheating in higher education : global perspectives on theory, practice, and policy / Sarah Elaine Eaton [and five others], editors.
ISBN 9783031126802 (electronic bk.)
3031126807 (electronic bk.)
3031126793
9783031126796
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12680-2
Imprint Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-12680-2 doi
Call Number LB3609
Dewey Decimal Classification 378.1958
Summary This edited volumethe first book devoted to the topic of contract cheatingbrings together the perspectives of leading scholars presenting novel research. Contract cheating describes the outsourcing of students assessments to third parties such that the assignments or exams students submit are not their own work. While research in this area has grown over the past five years, the phenomenon has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Themes addressed in this book include the definition of contract cheating, its prevalence in higher education, and what motivates students to engage in it. Chapter authors also consider various interventions that can be used to address contract cheatings threat to academic integrity in higher education including: assessment practice, education, detection strategies, policy design, and legal interventions.
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Contract cheating and introduction to the problem
Chapter 2: What can we learn from measuring crime when looking to quantify the prevalence and incidence of contract cheating?- Chapter 3: Limitations of contract cheating research
Chapter 4: Essay mills and contract cheating from a legal point of view
Chapter 5: Leveraging college copyright ownership against file-sharing and contract cheating websites
Chapter 6: The encouragement of file sharing behaviours through technology and social media: Impacts on student cheating behaviours and academic piracy
Chapter 7: Higher education assessment design
Chapter 8: Critical thinking as an antidote to contract cheating
Chapter 9: Contract cheating and the Dark Triad traits
Chapter 10: Contract cheating: The influence of attitudes and emotions
Chapter 11: Applying situational crime prevention techniques to contract cheating
Chapter 12: Presentation, Properties and Provenance: the three Ps of identifying evidence of contract-cheating in student assignments
Chapter 13: (Im)possible to prove : Formalising academic judgement evidence in contract cheating cases using bibliographic forensics
Chapter 14: Aligning academic quality and standards with academic integrity
Chapter 15: Addressing contract cheating through staff-student partnerships
Chapter 16: The extortionate cost of contract cheating
Chapter 17: The rise of contract cheating in graduate education
Chapter 18: Listening to ghosts: A qualitative study of narratives from contract cheating writers from the 1930s onwards
Chapter 19: Assessment brokering and collaboration: Ghostwriter and student academic literacies
Chapter 20: Conclusion. .

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